Researchers Yao Yu, David T. Sandwell, and Gerald Dibarboure, who published “Abyssal marine tectonics from the SWOT mission” in Science last month, are among the scientists already producing ...

This generates weather systems and a variety of climates, which causes weathering, washes nutrients into the oceans, and boosts marine life. Tectonics indirectly also sped up the creation of ...

where marine organisms turn them into reefs and shells that become limestone and are eventually subducted back into the planet's interior. When the atmosphere goes haywire, tectonics gradually ...